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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2013 Jan;41(1):1–8. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31826a4650

Table 2.

Surgeons’ attitudes about the timing of withdraw of postoperative life supporting treatment

If your patient or his surrogate requested withdrawal of life
supporting therapy after a high risk, non-emergent operation would
you consider it acceptable to withdraw at …
Sometimes or
Always (%)
Postoperative Day #1 6
Postoperative Day #7 50
Postoperative Day #14 85
Postoperative Day # 35 95